Mike Johnson Cancels 2 Weeks of House Votes Ahead of Midterms

3 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Sep 3

Two planned voting weeks in late September were scrapped by Speaker Mike Johnson, leaving the House with just one more working week before the midterm elections.
The move gives vulnerable Republicans more campaign time, but it also makes new legislation before November unlikely and leaves only the week of Sept. 14 as overlap with the Senate.
Several measures could stall, including bipartisan House sexual-misconduct reforms, while any Senate action on a party-line spending bill for Pentagon funding tied to the Iran war and voting-rule incentives may sit untouched.
Attendance and vote-counting problems had already weakened the GOP's slim majority: this week, two Democrats had to help advance the House agenda after Republican defections on procedural votes.
Republicans said the chamber had finished its work after passing a stopgap funding bill through Dec. 11, while Democrats cast the early exit as abandoning congressional responsibilities.